text:
Laying bare a startling example of urban collapse, data showed the population falling by 25 percent in a decade.
Laying bare the country's most startling example of modern urban collapse, census data on Tuesday showed that Detroit's population had plunged by 25 percent over the last decade. It was dramatic testimony to the crumbling industrial base of the Midwest, black flight to the suburbs and the tenuous future of what was once a thriving metropolis.
It was the largest percentage drop in history for any American city with more than 100,000 residents, apart from the unique situation of New Orleans, where the population dropped by 29 percent after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College.
The number of people who vanished from Detroit — 237,500 — was bigger than the 140,000 who left New Orleans.
The loss in Detroit seemed to further demoralize some residents who said they already had little hope for the city's future.
"Even if we had depressing issues before, the decline makes it so much harder to deal with," said Samantha Howell, 32, who was getting gas on Tuesday on the city's blighted East Side. "Yes, the city feels empty physically, empty of people, empty of ambition, drive. It feels empty."
Detroit's population fell to 713,777 in 2010, the lowest since 1910, when it was 466,000. In a shift that was unthinkable 20 years ago, Detroit is now smaller than Austin, Tex., Charlotte, N.C., and Jacksonville, Fla.
"It's a major city in free-fall," said L. Brooks Patterson, the county executive of neighboring Oakland County, which was also hit by the implosion of the automobile industry but whose population rose by almost 1 percent, thanks to an influx of black residents. "Detroit's tax base is eroding, its citizens are fleeing and its school system is in the hands of a financial manager."
Nearly a century ago, the expansion of the auto industry fueled a growth spurt that made Detroit the fourth-largest city in the country by 1920, a place it held until 1950, when the population peaked at almost two million. By 2000, Detroit had fallen to 10th place.
Depending on final numbers from all cities, Detroit now may have dropped to 18th place, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.
City officials, cognizant of the negative political and financial consequences of such a decline in population, said they intended to challenge the census. It probably missed tens of thousands of residents, they said.
"While we expected a decline in population, we are confident these figures will be revised," Mayor David Bing said in a statement. He told reporters that if the city could account for a total of 750,000 people, it would meet a threshold for receiving more federal and state money.
Detroit is the only city in the United States where the population has climbed above one million but also fallen below one million, Mr. Beveridge said. And because of the magnitude of Detroit's population drain, Michigan is the only state to register a net population loss since 2000. Michigan's population fell by 0.6 percent while the nation's as a whole grew by 9.7 percent.
The reasons for Detroit's losses over the last decade include the travails of the auto industry and the collapse of the industrial-based economy.
"There's been an erosion of the nation's industrial base, and this is the most dramatic evidence of it," Mr. Beveridge said.
But a major factor, too, has been the exodus of black residents to the suburbs, which followed the white flight that started in the 1960s. Detroit lost 185,393 black residents in the last decade.
"This is the biggest loss of blacks the city has shown, and that's tied to the foreclosures in the city's housing," Mr. Frey said. Because of the Great Migration — when blacks flowed from the South to the North — and the loss of whites, he said, "Detroit has been the most segregated city in the country and it is still pretty segregated, but not as much." At one point, the city was 83 percent black.
Many blacks moved to nearby suburbs, but census data shows that even those suburbs have barely held their own against population loss.
The staggering loss over the past decade surprised even demographers who track Detroit's out-migration patterns.
"I never thought it would go this low," said Kurt Metzger, an urban affairs expert and demographer who analyzes data about the city.
"This is the biggest percentage loss that Detroit has ever seen," he said, noting that the city suffered a higher numerical loss, 300,000, from 1970 to 1980. Still, that accounted for only 20 percent of the population, which had been 1.5 million in 1970.
The question now is the degree to which the most recent census figures will discourage those who have invested in Detroit and continue to try to make a go of it.
"Obviously it's going to be a blow," Mr. Metzger said. "All of us are kind of shocked, but it means we have to work that much harder."
With more than 20 percent of the lots in the 139-square-mile city vacant, the mayor is in the midst of a program to demolish 10,000 empty residential buildings. But for many, the city already seems hollowed out.
"You can just see the emptiness driving in," said Joel Dellario, a student at the College for Creative Studies. "I've been in and out of this city my whole life, and it's just really apparent."


text:
The Boston Archdiocese issued a statement Feb. 8 — long before snowflakes in the predicted blizzard started falling — urging Catholics to "exercise prudence" in attending Sunday Mass this weekend.
The statement advised Catholics to heed the travel advisories of their cities and towns and to stay off the roads during the peak hours of the storm and plow operation.
It noted that the bulk of the storm would take place Feb. 8-9 and that by Feb. 10 the roads might be clear.
In the event that roads are not clear, it stressed: "The faithful are reminded that the obligation to attend Sunday Mass does not apply when there is grave difficulty in fulfilling this obligation," according to canon law.
The Diocese of Providence, R.I., issued a similar statement telling Catholics they should "carefully heed the safety directives of state and local officials."
It likewise urged Catholics to "use prudence and extreme caution," stressing that in conditions which are "extremely difficult or dangerous," Catholics are "dispensed from the normal obligation."
The blizzard, dubbed Winter Storm Nemo, was expected to dump heavy snow and bring hurricane-force winds to parts of the Northeast starting the afternoon of Feb. 8 and continuing through the next day.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Forum : Books : A Long Short War - The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
To my knowledge, I am the first SOLOist to change my mind about the war in Iraq. My unease with my anti-war position had been going on for some time and a discussion with SOLOist Joe Rowlands when he last visited New Zealand was crucial. But I have to say, this book was what really did it. If you thought Lindsay Perigo hated Saddam and the anti-war... (See the whole review)(Added by Deleted on 1/09/2005, 11:43pm)
Discuss this Book (84 messages)


text:
Home > Career Center
Full-time emergency clinician with 1 + years experience needed for a 24-hour emergency facility located in Swansea, MA. Equipment includes: Digital radiography, comprehensive in-house laboratory equipment, and much more. Competitive salary with production based bonus, shift differential for overnights and a $5000 salary increase upon completion of emergency surgical skills. Benefits include: Health insurance, dental insurance, 401K, disability insurance, flexible spending account, continuing education allowance, pet discount and two weeks vacation. There is also a $5000 sign on bonus. The appropriate candidate is compassionate with solid medical, surgical, communication skills and a focus on client education. Fax resume to 508-730-1118 Attn. Dr Michelle Lampe or e-mail resume to email@example.com.
Position requires experience in emergency medicine and surgical skills. Applicant must be willling to work a rotating schedule that includes every other weekend and rotating holidays.
NOVA is part of the Virginia Community College System
Northern Virginia Community College © 2011


text:
Issue Type: Improvement Created: 2008-05-30T07:31:20.000+0000 Last Updated: 2010-03-18T08:13:54.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.5.3 (28/Jul/08)
Reporter: Amr Mostafa (alienbrain) Assignee: Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) Tags: - Zend_Form
Related issues: - ZF-9456
Attachments: - Zend_Form-Improved_ElementsBelongTo.patch
h4. Introduction: Zend_Form supports belongsTo (on element level) and elementsBelongTo (on form level) as more explicit and free ways of grouping fields using array notation. The other default way is using SubForms. A key difference between the two approaches is that with SubForms, Zend_Form knows what data structure to expect when validating and populating. So you can pass it the whole $_POST array for example, and it will loop and assign values.
With the belongsTo/elementsBelongTo approach however, the data structure inside a Zend_Form could be 1 level (flat). While in reality, it's going to result in a nested arrays of arrays inside $_POST once submitted. So the developer can no longer pass $_POST and expect Zend_Form to validate against or populate with.
This limitation is noted in the Advanced Zend_Form Usage section in the manual (the last paragraph): bq. Additionally, on the element level, you can specify individual elements may belong to particular arrays using Zend_Form_Element::setBelongsTo() method. However, doing this may cause issues when validating your element, and is not recommended in most cases.
This issue aims at improving the situation and hopefully removing this warning from the manual :)
h4. To reproduce: A full example is attached for convenience, however minimal important parts follow: h5. Zend_Form_Element's belongsTo:

$form->addElement('text', 'recipient', array(
'label' => 'Ship to',
'required' => true,
'belongsTo' => 'shipping',
$form->addElement('submit', 'submit', array(
'label' => 'Submit'.
if ($request->isPost()) {
if ($form->isValid($request->getPost())) {
// Execution never reach here. Form is never valid.
echo 'Order Placed!';
echo $form->render();
h5. Zend_Form's elementsBelongTo:

$form->addElement('text', 'recipient', array(
'label' => 'Ship to',
'required' => true,
$form->addElement('submit', 'submit', array(
'label' => 'Submit'.
if ($request->isPost()) {
if ($form->isValid($request->getPost())) {
// Execution never reach here. Form is never valid.
echo 'Order Placed!';
echo $form->render();
Posted by Amr Mostafa (alienbrain) on 2008-05-30T07:43:07.000+0000
A ready to use example demonstrating the problem when using belongsTo (on the element's level). You just need to correct the path to zf.
Posted by Amr Mostafa (alienbrain) on 2008-05-30T07:43:31.000+0000
A ready to use example demonstrating the problem when using setElementsBelongTo (on the form's level). You just need to correct the path to zf.
Posted by Amr Mostafa (alienbrain) on 2008-05-30T07:50:57.000+0000
Attaching a patch which fixes this issue. It does that by parsing the belongsTo/setElementsBelongsTo and dissolving the value from given data (e.g. POST) based on that.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2008-05-30T08:56:55.000+0000
This was an excellently reported issue -- my thanks to you!
If you could provide unit tests for this functionality, that will make my job even easier. Regardless, I'm scheduling for the next mini release.
Posted by Amr Mostafa (alienbrain) on 2008-06-12T01:18:50.000+0000
Thanks Matthew, it's my pleasure! :)
I started writing the tests few days ago, but more importantly, when I ran the test suite of Zend_Form with the patch applied, I've noticed that 2 tests failed. So I decided to examine the situation again, and I'm working on an enhanced patch. But I need help :)
Why does FormElements decorator override the subForm's elementsBelongTo? For example:

$subForm->addElement('text', 'name')->name->setLabel('Name');
$form->addSubForm($subForm, 'sub');

While I'd expect it to produce:

Posted by Amr Mostafa (alienbrain) on 2008-06-20T12:26:01.000+0000
Attaching an updated patch for Zend_Form's elementsBelongTo.
This patch (Zend_Form-Improved_ElementsBelongTo.patch) includes unit tests, and integrates with isValid, isValidPartial, getMessages, getErrors and getValues. It also modifies FormElements decorator to produce the markup honoring elementsBelongTo, a unit test was added for that as well.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2008-07-22T08:24:29.000+0000
Patch reviewed and applied to trunk and 1.5/1.6 release branches.
Posted by Christian Albrecht (alab) on 2010-03-07T19:51:04.000+0000
Today i wondered who the smart guy was who wrote this _dissolveArrayValue() function. And it's really interesting to read your patch because just now these clean methods you wrote are corrupted again somehow. Living Code :) Maybe it's because the _dissolve function is so dreaded that it's hard to follow.
Have you found an issue?
See the Overview section for more details.


text:
Most students complete the certificate for extra credit, so I need something that is strenuous enough that they learn something, but not so strenuous that they drop out. Below is my first draft of the Information Literacy Badge plan. Because this is the first time we are doing anything like this, I am requiring participants attend an in-person workshop. I hope to allow students to complete the badge completely online in the future.
Below is the first draft of my plan. I still need to develop most of the details. Please take a look and provide feedback. Is it feasible? What am I missing? Am I using the right tools?
The Information Literacy Badge: Social Media in School, Work, and Life
DescriptionSocial media tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram have integrated themselves into our daily lives, even into our schools and work. Online badges, popular in online games, are emerging as another social media tool that could have a positive impact on education. Students in this class will be among the first in the country to earn online badges using Passport by Purdue University. Students who attend this session will be able to complete the remaining requirements for the Information Certificate online by earning badges. This class focuses on social media and utilizes several social media tools. This class is for self-motivated students with good computer and Internet skills.
Based on our General Education rubric for "Evaluate Information."
- Students will be able to identify an appropriate research topic and develop a research strategy.
- Determine the Extent of Information Needed: Capstone 2
- Students will be able to access information in a variety of formats.
- Access the Needed Information: Capstone 2
- Students will be able evaluate an information source based on timeliness, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose.
- Evaluate Information and Its Sources Critically: Capstone 2
- Students will be able to prepare a source citation in the MLA format.
- Access and Use Information Ethically and Legally: Capstone 2
Agenda for In-Person Class1. Introduce students to online badges.
2. Explain how students will earn badges and the certificate.
3. Question Formulation Technique (QFT)
4. Set up Passport accounts.
5. Set up PBWorks accounts.
Badges Required for the Information Literacy BadgeInformation Pursuer
- Create an Open Backpack. Share link in the group's Facebook page.
- Create bio page in class wiki.
- Contribute to search term brainstorming on the class wiki.
- Develop a search strategy.
- Select 3 different search tools.
- Develop search terms for each tool.
- Identify 3 relevant sources.
- Cite 3 sources in the MLA Format.
- Evaluate each of the above sources for timeliness, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose.
- Post citations and evaluations on the class wiki.
Optional BadgesBadge Pioneer
Awarded to all students who complete the Information Literacy Badge.
Check-in at the Richland College Library.
Tweety Bird
Post an original tweet to @amy_jane regarding something you learned while earning the Information Literacy Badge.
Facebook Groupie
Active participant in the class' Facebook group.
Social Activist
Tell us about an additional social media outlet and how you use it. Post your comment in the class' Facebook group.
Make at least 1 blog posting regarding what you learned while earning your Information Literacy Badge.
Social Butterfly
Highest score in Klout.


text:
1. Where is the Office of Campus Center and Event Services located on campus?
The Office of Campus Center and Event Services is located at 201 Egbert Hall in the Campus Center of Ithaca College. For specific directions, please visit the college's directions page.
2. How do I request a room reservation for an event I would like to have at Ithaca College?
To request a room reservation, please visit Room/Event Reservation Requests and submit the appropriate form.
3. Does Ithaca College provide guest housing?
Yes, Ithaca College can provide housing during the summer term (mid-May to the first weekend in August). For more information, please call our office at (607) 274-3313.
4. What types of catering does Ithaca College provide?
Dining Services is able to provide a wide selection of catering options. For more information and to view the menus, please visit our Dining Services page.
5. Does Ithaca College provide audio-visual services?
Ithaca College does provide a variety of audio-visual services. The Campus Center and Event Services staff will work closely with you to meet your needs. For more information, please click here.
6. How many guests can Ithaca College accommodate?
Depending on the details of the event and the event location, Ithaca College can accommodate up to 7,000 guests.
7. What are the facility fees?
The facility fees vary for each event space, please contact the Campus Center and Event Services Office for more specifics. We will be happy to help you.


text:
Acclaimed writer and National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen dies at 86 after struggle with leukemia
Peter Matthiessen, a rich man's son who spurned a life of leisure and embarked on extraordinary physical and spiritual quests while producing such acclaimed books as 'The Snow Leopard' and 'At Play in the Fields of the Lord,' died Saturday. He was 86.
His publisher Geoff Kloske of Riverhead Books said Matthiessen, who had been diagnosed with leukemia, was ill 'for some months.' He died at a hospital near his home on Long Island.
'Peter was a force of nature, relentlessly curious, persistent, demanding - of himself and others,' his literary agent, Neil Olson, said in a statement. 'But he was also funny, deeply wise and compassionate.'
Writer Peter Matthiessen, who produced such acclaimed books as 'The Snow Leopard' and 'At Play in the Fields of the Lord,' died Saturday at the age of 86
Few authors could claim such a wide range of achievements. Matthiessen helped found The Paris Review, one of the most influential literary magazines, and won National Book Awards for 'The Snow Leopard,' his spiritual account of the Himalayas, and for the novel 'Shadow Country.' A leading environmentalist and wilderness writer, he embraced the best and worst that nature could bring him, whether trekking across the Himalayas, parrying sharks in Australia or enduring a hurricane in Antarctica.
He also was a longtime liberal who befriended Cesar Chavez and wrote a defense of Indian activist Leonard Peltier, 'In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,' that led to a highly publicized, and unsuccessful,
Matthiessen's book 'The Snow Leopard' won acclaim and the National Book Award
lawsuit by an FBI agent who claimed Matthiessen had defamed him.
'In Paradise,' which he had expected to be his last novel, will be published next week. The book was inspired by a visit in the 1990s he made to Auschwitz.
'The gas chambers were all blown up at the end of the war, so they are simply these grim-looking pale ruins out in the distance,' he told NPR during a recent interview. 'It's a very grim scene. And so it's the enormity of it that just stuns you the first time.'
Matthiessen became a Zen Buddhist in the 1960s, and was later a Zen priest who met daily with a fellow group of practitioners in a meditation hut that he converted from an old stable.
The granite-faced author, rugged and athletic into his 80s, seemed to live out a modern version of the Buddhist legend, a child of privilege transformed by the discovery of suffering.
Matthiessen was born in New York in 1927, the son of Erard A. Matthiessen, a wealthy architect and conservationist. 'The Depression had no serious effect on our well-insulated family,' the author would later write.
While at Yale, he wrote the short story 'Sadie,' which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and he soon acquired an agent.
After graduation he moved to Paris and, along with fellow writer-adventurer George Plimpton, helped found The Paris Review. (Matthiessen would later acknowledge he was a CIA recruit at the time and used his work with the Review as a cover).
The magazine caught on, but Paris only reminded Matthiessen that he was an American writer. In the mid-1950s he returned to the United States, moved to Long Island's Sag Harbor (where he eventually lived on a six-acre estate), socialized with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and other painters, operated a deep-sea fishing charter boat - and wrote.
Matthiessen's early novels were short, tentative efforts: 'Race Rock,' 'Raditzer' and 'Partisans,' which features a wealthy young man who confides 'his ignorance of human misery.' In need of money, Matthiessen also wrote for such magazines as Holiday and Sports Illustrated.
In 1961, Matthiessen became a major novelist with 'At Play in the Fields of the Lord,' his tale of missionaries under siege from both natives and mercenaries in the jungles of Brazil.
Its detailed account of a man's hallucinations brought him a letter of praise from LSD guru Timothy Leary. The book was later adapted into a film of the same name, starring John Lithgow and Daryl Hannah.
He wrote many other books, including 'Far Tortuga,' a novel told largely in dialect about a doomed crew of sailors on the Caribbean; 'The Tree Where Man Was Born,' a highly regarded chronicle of his travels in East Africa.
Matthiessen was well-traveled in literary circles, befriending writers like Sarah Dudley Plimpton
In the 1980s and `90s, Matthiessen published a trio of novels - 'Killing Mr. Watson,' 'Lost Man's River' and 'Bone by Bone' - about a community in Florida's Everglades at the turn of the 20th century and a predatory planter. Unhappy, especially with 'Lost Man's River,' he spent years revising and condensing all three books into 'Shadow Country,' published in 2008 and a surprise National Book Award winner.
Although an explorer in the Hemingway tradition, Matthiessen didn't seek to conquer nature, but to preserve it. In 1959, he published his first nonfiction book, 'Wildlife in America,' in which he labels man 'the highest predator' and one uniquely prone to self-destruction.
Much of his fiction, from "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" to "Bone by Bone," bestowed a lion-like aura upon nature - grand when respected, dangerous when provoked, tragic when exploited.
"There's an elegiac quality in watching (American wilderness) go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes," he once wrote. "I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now."
Matthiessen was married three times, most recently to Maria Eckhart, whom he wed in 1980. He had four children, two each from his first two marriages, and two stepchildren from his third marriage.
Most watched News videos
- Flowers laid at property of a boy tragically killed by a dog
- Police cordon off road in Mitcham after man's body found 'ablaze'
- French police officer stamps and kicks on British suspect's head
- 'He's a monster!' Alligator outside house following hurricane Sally
- Shocking moment cop fatally shoots woman after aiming for her dog
- Parents reunited with son after he was abducted 40-years ago
- Jacob Rees-Mogg calls for end of 'endless carping' on testing
- Newcastle: People enjoy socially-distanced gig before curfew
- Woman throws surprise wedding in hospital for terminally ill mum
- Dido Harding: 'Nobody was expecting' September surge in test demand
- Matt Hancock refuses to rule out second national lockdown
- Suspected paedophile killer flees after raping and killing daughters
The comments below have not been moderated.
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
We are no longer accepting comments on this article.


text:
This Japanese film (Banshun in Japanese) is the second of post-war productions from Yasujirō Ozu. Unlike the other famous and more well known to international audience Akira Kurosawa, he prefers to work on much a simpler scale. Yasujiro Ozu is the most Japanese of Japan's filmmakers, who dispenses with an elaborate plot or action to keep the viewer's attention. Kurosawa may keep several cameras rolling simultaneously to give his actions fluidity or let them leap past picture frame as in Seven Samurai while Ozu's camera remains three feet above the floor: he, with his subjective camera technique prompts the viewer to see his films from a Japanese perspective. According to film critic Iwasaki Akira,' The Japanese people spend their lives seated on 'tatami' mattings spread over the floor;…therefore the eye of the camera also must be at this level.' ("Yasujirō Ozu", Film No 36, Summer 1963,p.9) Before I pass over to the plot and other matters I think his films uphold typically a Japanese virtue of 'less is more.' Like Sho, Japanese calligraphy there is a natural balance in both the characters and the composition as a whole'.
The plot is simple: There is a deep bond between a widowed father and his daughter who is 'in her late spring.' Does he let her serve his needs longer or give her away in marriage while there is time? It is based on Father and Daughter by Kazuo Hirotsu.
The story concerns Noriko, who lives happily with her widowed father and seems in no hurry to get married. Her father, a professor, however, wants to see her settled and conspires with his sister to trick Noriko into pursuing an arranged marriage. Not wishing to see the girl resign herself to spinsterhood, Shukuchi ( Chisu Ryu) pretends that he himself is about to be married. Obvious in a middle-class home with such small living space as In Japan there will be no room for her, thus forcing her to seek comfort and joy elsewhere. It is cruel to be pushed out of the family nest but love sometimes must be made of sterner stuff. Chisu Ryu was faultless as the father whose emotions always struck the right note as one who could warm up to the affection of his selfless daughter and equally show his concern at the way she was turning herself in the process into a aged spinster. The film stars Setsuko Hara, in her first of many collaborations with Ozu.
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Produced by Shochiku Films Ltd.
Written by Kazuo Hirotsu
Kôgo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu
Music by Senji Itô
Cinematography Yuuharu Atsuta
Running time 108 min.
Chishu Ryu … Shukichi Somiya
Setsuko Hara … Noriko Somiya
Yumeji Tsukioka … Aya Kitagawa
Haruko Sugimura … Masa Taguchi
Hohi Aoki … Katsuyoshi
Jun Usami … Shuichi Hattori
Similar Movies
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
Early Summer (1951, Yasujiro Ozu)
Movies with the Same Personnel
Early Summer (1951, Yasujiro Ozu)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
Late Autumn (1960, Yasujiro Ozu)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu)
Floating Weeds (1959, Yasujiro Ozu)
Equinox Flower (1958, Yasujiro Ozu)
Early Autumn (1961, Yasujiro Ozu)
Good Morning (1959, Yasujiro Ozu)


text:
I have been reading Unveiling the Retirement Myth.speedbump101 wrote:Today's paper had a write up on 'Unveiling the Retirement Myth' and mentioned it was available for free download (until Aug 31st) ... I took advantage of the invitation and found it quite interesting... It's particularily well suited for those approaching the draw down hase of their investment life cycle... Nothing earth shatteringly new, however I feel comfortable recommending it... If you want a quick overview of his strategy read chapter 41 first 'The Zone Strategy'
BTW to download the book in pdf form (non printable) he does require a name and email address.. Also note this is a Canadian author so there may be a slight difference in some of the terminology...
Paper article here: http://www.financialpost.com/opinion/st ... 98736079e8
Download the green 'pre-release' version here http://retirementoptimizer.com/
Finally somebody takes an intelligent look at the Distribution Phase based on worst case analysis. Up until now the only thing I have ever seen was variations on the Trinity study withdrawal method with floors, ceilings and buckets which are all nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, in my opinion.
In a nutshell, what matters is your withdrawal rate and luck. What everybody here focuses on, asset allocation, is a distant third.
You are either in the green zone where you will succeed no matter what AA you have. The red zone, in which case you are doomed and no AA can help you. Or in the gray zone where you either get lucky or not.


text:
Answering questions on welfare policy following a speech in Berlin, Duncan Smith said that the magazine - which is sold by homeless people – was being used by migrants to claim benefits.
"What is happening progressively, more and more, is people mostly from southern and eastern Europe have actually ended up being Big Issue sellers and they claim, as self-employed, immediately, tax credits," he said.
The Big Issue hit back, stating that the problems were "inherent in a benefits system created by the Government".
How I see it
Emily Wallace, director, Connect Communications
Politicians need to be careful when singling out organisations as an example of a problem, and Iain Duncan Smith should know better.
Is he right to address issues relating to immigration and benefits? Absolutely.
According to the monthly Mori issues index the public sees it as the second most important issue facing Britain, only just behind the economy. UKIP has tapped into this spectacularly and its recent success is in part built on its willingness to talk openly about immigration as an issue.
But was this a good way to engage on this territory? Absolutely not.
The story became Duncan Smith attacks the Big Issue, which not only is a popular brand and respected charity, but also meant he completely failed to deliver a strong message around the Conservative policy on 'benefit tourism' or being tough on immigration. His singling out of the Big Issue, in practice, only served to narrow the story and distort the message.


text:
One of Mexico's largest digital marketing agencies leverages Kenshoo Enterprise and Kenshoo Local to ensure success for large and small Latin American clients
San Francisco (November 13, 2012) – Kenshoo (www.Kenshoo.com), a global leader in digital marketing software, today announced that VirKet (www.VirKet.com), one of the largest digital marketing firms in Mexico, has chosen Kenshoo Enterprise and Kenshoo Local to maximize paid search campaign performance for its clients across Google, Yahoo, Bing and other channels.
"At VirKet we pride ourselves on quickly and effectively responding to the needs of our clients and Kenshoo's robust features enhance our ability to act in a more agile, flexible and profitable manner," said Pedro Quinzanos, CEO of VirKet. "Kenshoo's ability to create and scale successful campaigns is unparalleled, and we've had great success with Kenshoo's advanced bid optimization functionality."
The adoption of Kenshoo Enterprise and Kenshoo Local improves VirKet's capabilities to efficiently manage thousands of customer accounts while maintaining the personal case management approach preferred by its clients. In many instances, the application of Kenshoo's sophisticated algorithms helped to reduce wasteful spend by as much as 80 percent, allowing for reinvestment into top-performing placements.
"VirKet's diverse mix of clients necessitated the use of a highly-flexible and advanced digital marketing platform to drive more sales efficiently, and that's where Kenshoo stepped in," said Will Martin-Gill, general manager, Kenshoo Enterprise and Kenshoo Local. "We are proud to power VirKet as we strengthen our footprint in Latin America, one of the fastest growing online advertising markets."
Kenshoo Enterprise is a leading technology solution for paid search marketing, delivering advanced automation and reporting, powerful algorithms and optimization tools, and dedicated global support. Kenshoo Local is the first and only scalable search engine marketing software solution designed for companies managing large volumes of online marketing advertisers and campaigns.
Both Kenshoo Enterprise and Kenshoo Local run on the Kenshoo Universal Platform, which serves as the foundation to deliver scalable cross-channel insights and bottom-line results. By connecting data from more than 50 third-party data sources, including leading SEO technology platforms, Kenshoo helps VirKet better optimize its clients' paid search campaigns.
About VirKet
About VirKet S.A. de C.V
VirKet SA. De CV is a digital marketing agency that provides telecom operators, publishers, advertising agencies and other companies with a large SMB footprint with digital advertising campaigns and products that are built to increase their ROI and provide additional income channels through their current customer bases. VirKet also specializes in working with government agencies to provide digital platform services that engage SMB's, educate them on the benefits of marketing online and providing tools to get their business online through various VirKet sponsored government programs. VirKet has offices in the United States and Mexico.
About Kenshoo
Kenshoo is a digital marketing technology company that engineers premium solutions for search marketing, social media and online advertising. Brands, agencies and developers use Kenshoo Enterprise, Kenshoo Local and Kenshoo Social to direct more than $25 billion in annual client sales revenue. The Kenshoo Universal Platform delivers automation, intelligence, integration and scale to make better marketing investments. With campaigns running in more than 190 countries for nearly half of the Fortune 50 and all 10 top global ad agency networks, Kenshoo clients include CareerBuilder, Expedia, Facebook, KAYAK, Havas Digital, Hitwise, iREP, John Lewis, LendingTree, Resolution Media, Sears, Starcom MediaVest Group, Tesco, Travelocity, Walgreens, and Zappos. Kenshoo has 16 international locations and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Arts Alliance and Tenaya Capital. Please visitwww.Kenshoo.com for more information.
Kenshoo is a trademark of Kenshoo Ltd. Other company and brand names may be trademarks of their respective owners.


text:
Professor Nicholas J. Higham
- Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- SIAM Fellow, Turing Fellow
- Member of Academia Europaea
- My blog on applied mathematics, software and workflow.
Citations, Software
- Google Scholar, Guide2Research, GitHub, MathSciNet (subscription),
Researcher ID.
- Numerical Linear Algebra group
- Quick links: publications, ICONIC, NLEVP, PhD students, postdocs, Manchester Data Science Institute
Research interests
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical linear algebra
- Numerical algorithms and software
Contact details
- School of Mathematics
- Alan Turing Building
- The University of Manchester
- Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
- Phone : +44 (0)161 275 5822
Fax : +44 (0)161 306 3669
- nick.higham [at] manchester.ac.uk
More about me
- Wikipedia entry, Brief bio, Resume NAG profile
- Author profiles: amazon.uk, amazon.com, ACM
- Member of editorial boards of Acta Numerica, Forum of Mathematics, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, IMA J of Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra & its Applications, PeerJ Computer Science (profile)
- Editor-in-Chief of SIAM book series Fundamentals of Algorithms. Member of SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics and SIAM Data Science book series boards.


text:
Prisons, Ecology and the Birth of an Empire
From Earth First! Newswire/ By Panagioti
Strange sometimes how worlds collide. Nine years ago I found myself in the swamps of the northeastern Everglades listening to an independent, traditional Seminole activist asking for support in challenging the state and federal government's plans to fund a celebration of 500 years of Florida—a history that began, in many ways, with the founding of one of the best known tourist traps in this country's history.
If Christopher Columbus is a symbol marking the origin of Manifest Destiny's rampage across the western hemisphere, then conquistador Pedro Menendez de Aviles, who established the colony of St. Augustine, built the first literal foundation under that genocidal, ecocidal mindset.
Today, as I occupy my time developing the Prison Ecology Project, aimed at mapping the intersections of incarceration, ecology and environmental racism, it's hard not to also view St. Augustine as the first prison town of what would become the U.S. Empire—a nation that has distinguished itself in the modern world by simultaneously pushing global policies that have facilitated an unprecedented pillaging of the planet for resources and for locking people up at a never-before-seen scale or pace in human history. (more…)


text:
East Fairview Mennonite Church (Milford, Nebraska, USA)
The East Fairview Mennonite Church, Milford, Seward County, Nebraska, was a member of the Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference. The first communion service was held in 1875, with 11 members, and the first meetinghouse was built in 1878 and dedicated with a membership of 50. The 1954 membership was 440. Bishops who served this congregation up to 1954 were Joseph Schlegel, N. E. Roth, P. R. Kennel, and J. E. Zimmerman; ministers were P. P. Hershberger, Joseph Gasho, Joseph Rediger, Jacob Stauffer, William Schlegel, and George S. Miller.
In 1954 the ministers were Ammon Miller and Oliver Roth, with W. R. Richer serving as bishop.
[Yeackley, Eva]. East Fairview Mennonite Church 1876-1976. Milford: East Fairview Mennonite Church, 1976. Available in full electronic text at: https://archive.org/details/eastfairviewmenn00yeac.
Additional Information
Address: 508 280th, Milford, NE 68405
Phone: 402-761-2836
|Ammon M Miller
|Date Published
Cite This Article
MLA style
Miller, Ammon M. "East Fairview Mennonite Church (Milford, Nebraska, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 30 Sep 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=East_Fairview_Mennonite_Church_(Milford,_Nebraska,_USA)&oldid=163536.
APA style
Miller, Ammon M. (1953). East Fairview Mennonite Church (Milford, Nebraska, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 30 September 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=East_Fairview_Mennonite_Church_(Milford,_Nebraska,_USA)&oldid=163536.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 119. All rights reserved.
©1996-2020 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


text:
Experts: Zazi Could Have Killed Scores
The Afghan immigrant accused of buying large quantities of hair dye and nail polish remover to make explosives had the goods to kill scores of people in New York - a devastating attack on a scale with the transit bombings in London and Madrid, according to documents and interviews with former FBI experts.
Prosecutors have not said exactly what kind or number of bombs Najibullah Zazi planned to build, but court documents hint at the possibilities. It is likely he wanted to borrow a tactic used overseas by making bombs out of flour and hydrogen peroxide and putting them in backpacks, perhaps in the city's transit system, experts say.
The case has been described as perhaps the most serious terrorist plot uncovered in the U.S. since 9/11. However, experts said Zazi, who is being held without bail in New York, had the means to kill scores of people - not hundreds or thousands.
"These explosives are meant to be concealed easily and deployed easily and kill and maim and cause havoc in small areas," said Denny Kline, a retired FBI explosives expert. For a really big bomb, "you're going to need a truck."
How far along Zazi managed to get is unclear. Investigators have not said whether he successfully built or tested any bombs.
The Early Show: Zazi Lawyer Warns Press
Court documents indicate that the 24-year-old Zazi and others were hitting beauty supply stores, buying certain materials clearly used to make bombs. They bought concentrated bottles of hydrogen peroxide hair dye with names like Liquid Developer Clairoxide, Ion Sensitive Scalp Developer and Ms. K Liquid 40 Volume.
He and others also bought acetone - nail polish remover - and other ingredients that can be used to make a powerful and highly unstable explosive called triacetone triperoxide, or TATP. The same explosive was used by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid in 2001 and the terrorists who carried out the London bombings in 2005 that killed 52 people.
But in each of those earlier instances, TATP was not the main charge - it was the detonator. It was supposed to help detonate the plastic explosives in Reid's shoe aboard a jetliner, and it was used to set off a mixture of black pepper and hydrogen peroxide in London.
Likewise, experts in the Zazi case said the TATP was most likely going to be just the detonator.
"It is used more as a detonator because it's easy to initiate," said Leo W. West, a retired FBI explosives expert. "TATP is not the type of thing you want to bounce around with."
Read more on the alleged terror plot at CBSNews.com:
Prosecutor: Attack Was to Mark 9/11 Anniv.
Digital Fingerprints Led Feds to Zazi
Zazi Indicted for Plotting Terror Attack
NYPD May Have Blown Cover in Terror Probe
AG Holder: NYC Terror Plot "Very Serious"
While experts say hydrogen peroxide-based bombs are relatively easy to make with the correct recipe, Zazi was struggling. In early September, Zazi was communicating frantically with another individual "seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives," according to court documents.
Prosecutors say he requested information about flour and ghee oil, which is strained butter typically used in Indian communities. Notes lifted from Zazi's laptop computer discuss formulations for "mixing hydrogen peroxide with flour, and list ghee oil as a type of fuel that can be used to help initiate the explosive device," prosecutors said.
Zazi would have been taking a big risk if he had planned to use a car to transport large quantities of the TATP to New York from Denver, where he is suspected of buying ingredients and trying to make the bombs. TATP is sensitive to heat, friction and shock.
Dave Williams, another retired FBI explosives expert, said a half cup of TATP would blow the doors off a car and probably kill anybody inside.
"It's very dangerous," Williams said. In 2006, an explosion ripped through a Texas apartment where two men were making TATP. One was killed, the other injured.
Mixing hydrogen peroxide and flour is less fraught with peril than the TATP, experts say.
Court documents say Zazi twice rented a hotel room near Denver with a kitchen and his "bomb-making notes contemplate heating the components in order to make them highly concentrated."
Investigators found acetone residue in the vent above the stove. The three components of TATP are hydrogen peroxide, acetone and an acid. Acetone can be bought in drug stores and home improvement stores alike.
"They'd have to distill it, and that's where your cooking comes in," Williams said. "They'd have to make something that almost resembles a still so they could capture the acetone."
It is probably not something Zazi would have done at home. "That would give off a lot of odor," Williams said.
Explosives experts said Zazi might also have been trying to distill the hydrogen peroxide to reach a certain concentration, hitting what explosive experts call the "sweet spot."
Muktar Said Ibrahim, one of the men convicted of conspiring to bomb London's transit system on July 21, 2005, testified how he and others bought hydrogen peroxide and reduced it in a saucepan to a dangerously high concentration. The chemical was then mixed with flour, packed into plastic tubes and topped with detonators made with TATP.
The four bombs failed to explode. West said the bombers probably used the wrong concentration of hydrogen peroxide. However, a set of bombs detonated on July 7 in London worked, killing scores of people. The only difference in those bombs was that the terrorists used black pepper instead of flour.
The 2004 Madrid terror bombings killed 191 people and injured 2,000 others but did not involve hydrogen peroxide-based explosives. Four crowded commuter trains were ripped apart with a string of 10 backpack bombs made of plastic explosives.


text:
Herbatint Light Golden Chestnut (5D) has been formulated using the minimum pharmaceutical chemical ingredients which, balanced with vegetal extracts from plants and herbs creates a unique hair colour formula that not only gently colours your hair but protects and nourishes it.
Specially formulated from herb extracts and proteins, Herbatint uses rosemary, cinchona and walnut husk, to gently deposit colour, achieving a natural, vibrant result for your hair
No Damage
Due to its unique composition, Herbatint Light Golden Chestnut (5D) permanently colours hair without damage - resulting in a natural, subtle colour that not only looks great, but feels good time after time
Natural Gloss and Shine
Herbatint Light Golden Chestnut (5D) has a natural translucent property to enhance your hair with a light-reflecting, healthy shine; so it doesn´t create the "block colour" look often associated with chemical colourants.
Important - Please read before purchase
While we try to ensure that product information is correct, on occasion manufacturers may alter their ingredient lists. For additional information about a product, please Contact Us on 0800 252 875.
Content on this site is for reference purposes and is not intended to substitute for advice given by a medical practitioner, pharmacist, or other licensed health-care professional. Discontinue use and consult a doctor if adverse reactions occur.
Information stated regarding dietary supplements is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition.
Keep out of reach of children. Store in a cool, dry place. Do not use if seal under cap is broken or missing.
UK delivery
Standard delivery (Orders under £20): £3.50 · Delivery time: 3-5 working days
FREE delivery (Orders over £20): FREE · 3-5 working days
International delivery
We ship worldwide! Delivery times vary from 4-8 working days for Europe and 5-14 working days for the rest of the world. Flat rate delivery charges can be found here.


text:
It is an absolute travesty that we lose a football club from the pyramid. Not least for the fans and the community of that club. Could more have been done to save them?
Episode 16 of 136: The return of the number one Sheffield Wednesday fans podcast from Owlstalk. Did you miss us?
Neil and James are back for an ALL NEW OWLSTALK Sheffield Wednesday Podcast. We have a new recording studio, we have some new sounds, we have some new topics and we have a NEW, LIVE THEME TUNE!
The podcast world has lost a shining light with an Owlstalk Sheffield Wednesday Podcast presenter going on strike. Any similarities to the Fernando Forestieri situation are purely coincidental.
Sheffield Wednesday face up to Hull City at Wembley in the Championship Play Off Final! Who will win the big prize to the Premier League - here's our thoughts on OWLSTALK: The Sheffield Wednesday Podcast.
The Sheffield Wednesday Podcast from OWLSTALK returns, with a look forward to the Owls' potential promotion, more silliness and lots of comedy.
Episode 11 of the Owlstalk Sheffield Wednesday Fans Podcast! It is Episode 11. The eleventh Episode. Episode eleven. Better Butter.
Owlstalk, the Sheffield Wednesday podcast's Neil has returned from his travels of excess and can't string a sentence together, so nothing new there then...
This week Murdoch Mysteries and Coronation Street star Thomas Craig joins the Owlstalk Sheffield Wednesday podcast, just as Neil goes AWOL!
Welcome back to the Sheffield Wednesday podcast you can't just hear with your naked ear. Just your eyes. Listen up and let James Bond introduce you to the latest mission... errr.. episode.


text:
Dan Rather Remembers 9/11 is a special broadcast hosted by the man who was watched by tens of millions of viewers on the day America was attacked. His personal recollections as well as poignant stories about how much our country has changed and sacrificed in the last decade.
Click here for a preview clip:
Dan Rather Remembers 9/11 airs September 11, 2011 at 8pm ET.
As always, you can keep connected with our weekly stories by following Dan Rather Reports on Facebook and Twitter @DanRatherReport.
Copyright © 2020 AXS TV - All Rights Reserved.


text:
Chris Felix
Contributing Editor, Production Machining
Contributing Editor, Production Machining
Related Suppliers
Indianapolis will once again host mayhem in the ring when student-designed robot gladiators collide at the 2013 National Robotics League (NRL) Championships. The 2013 championships will be held on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus on May 17-19, 2013. The National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) created the NRL, a robot combat competition, to help introduce a new generation of Americans to the advanced skills and sophisticated technology that mark manufacturing today. This is the third year in a row that the National Championships will be held in Indianapolis.
This year, NTMA's Robotics League is partnering with The 2013 National SeaPerch Challenge, a student-driven competition featuring sophisticated underwater robots that will face off in the Olympic-sized pool at the IUPUI's Natatorium on May 18. The SeaPerch Program also provides students with the opportunity to learn about robotics, engineering, science, and mathematics—in this case, by building underwater ROVs as part of a school's science and engineering technology curriculum. The program is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
"NTMA is proud of its support for the National Robot League, which partners middle school, high school and post-secondary school students with our local member companies," said Maureen Carruthers, program manager at the National Robotics League. "The partnership allows the students to work with businesses as a team to build sophisticated robots designed to do battle with one another. What you see is a destruction-driven face-off of innovative machines that they've designed themselves—providing the students an invaluable opportunity to develop high-tech skills while stirring their interest in becoming part of the future of manufacturing and having a lot of fun in the bargain."
"The NRL initiative is important for the future of our industry," said Steve Tamasi, CEO of Boston Centerless in Woburn, MA. "The effort helps to change outdated perceptions of manufacturing. Instead, students get to see for themselves that our industry is defined by its innovative nature and the cutting-edge technology that we deploy every day. As our industry continues to gain ground in the U.S., we need more and more skilled workers to fill knowledge-based positions, and the process of generating that workforce of the future begins with efforts like these."
Rotary Parts Accumulator
This rotary collection device allows safe parts accumulation from untended bar-fed lathes. It is programmed to index with each part produced, collecting parts without allowing them to collide with one another.
Five Options for Higher Productivity
Today's market is more competitive and time-driven than ever, and seemingly small workflow improvements can often result in huge gains in the medium and long term. Accuracy and throughput can be greatly increased simply by choosing the best tool for the job.
Robots as Precision Machine Tools
To remain competitive, high-end manufacturing companies are looking for accurate, reliable and maintenance-free machine tools offering fast change-over, programming and setup. Industrial robot technology could provide an excellent base for machining because it is flexible and affordable.


text:
On February 12th, the hit zombie series The Walking Dead returns to AMC. Picking up just where the last episode and big reveal left off, that huge event rocks all of the characters to their core, leading some of them down surprising paths in the last six episodes of Season 2. As some characters get closer, divisions arise and the gang will have to face a new human threat that's as scary as the ever-present zombies.
While at the TCA Winter Press Tour, co-stars Melissa McBride, Norman Reedus and Steven Yeun talked about the aftermath of what happened at the barn, how difficult it was to lose a cast member that they thought of as family, that the second half of the season will have a lot more action, the challenge of working in 120 degrees with bugs and zombie guts while wearing the same clothes they've had on for three weeks, and how they worry about each script being their last, with the constant danger that their characters are in. Check out what they had to say after the jump, and be aware that there are some spoilers.
[SPOILER WARNING: The following interview may contain spoilers.]
Question: What will the aftermath of that barn scene, and the death of Sophia (Madison Lintz), be?
Norman Reedus: That took a lot of time to shoot. When we come back, we pick up where that left off. It sucked to lose Madison [Lintz]. We really liked her. She was part of our family. We also go in different directions, after that. It's so devastating. Shane (Jon Bernthal) built that up to a huge point that he tried to make, and it just went horribly wrong. Hershel (Scott Wilson) saw his whole family, who he thought was sick and that he could resurrect, so to speak, massacred in front of his face. Carol (McBride) saw her daughter as a zombie. A lot went down, in so many different directions. It just exploded us off, in all different ways.
Melissa McBride: There will be divisions among the group.
Reedus: There's a lot to talk about.
McBride: They will be re-thinking and re-evaluating everybody, for themselves and each other.
Melissa, what was your reaction to reading the script for that episode?
McBride: My initial reaction was, "No, they did it," because I had heard this might happen, and I was upset to see that Madison [Lintz] wouldn't be returning. She's so fun to work with. She's so professional.
Do your characters continue to get closer, when the series returns?
Reedus: It does continue. Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people. Carol and Daryl are a lot alike, in that we were abused and put down for so long. Now that those elements have left us, whether we wanted them to or not, there's something kindred that we see in each other. We look after each other.
McBride: There is a little division that comes between the two of them, too, because of what's happened. Carol's reaction is to remember Sophia the way she was and move forward. In her heart, she's come to terms with the fact that she's not going to see Sophia again. But, it's different for Daryl. He pulls away a little bit, to do what he needs to do, and I just don't want him to go far. I'm concerned with him and I'm looking out for him now. Carol can't drive by a stray she doesn't pick up, and Daryl's got nobody.
Reedus: Yeah, we look after each other, a little bit. Everyone's having love affairs and impregnating each other, so what else are we going to do?
McBride: After this whole barn thing happens, there's a lot of divisiveness and re-evaluating.
Was the first half of the season more relaxing to shoot because it was more about build-up?
Steven Yeun: I think each episode is pretty damn grueling.
Reedus: There's more talk in the first half than the second half of the season, and more action in the second.
Yeun: But then, it levels itself out because the talk that we do have in the second half is so intense.
Reedus: And, it's hardly ever casual conversation. Even the conversation is exhausting.
Yeun: There's no easier day.
Reedus: Yeah, Sunday is the easier day.
Yeun: But, that's what's awesome. Every day you come and just bust your ass. It's pretty great.
Reedus: And, it's 120 degrees outside, there's bugs all over you, and you get scratches and bruises that become a character on the show. But, we couldn't shoot the show in Los Angeles or Toronto, or wherever.
McBride: There's so much that's going to be happening in the second part of the season. It just never stops. It's very intense. What a great crew we have, too.
Yeun: Yeah, we complain about how hard it is for us.
McBride: After we wrap, they're still there.
REEDUS: We were delirious and cross-eyed, on the last day of the season.
McBride: We were literally cross-eyed.
Yeun: And then, people went out and hung out more, afterwards.
McBride: It was a wrap party, at 10:30 am. That was an amazing night. What a great finale that's going to be.
Yeun: And, of all scenes to end our show on, that was one scene that was just simple.
McBride: The final scene that we shot, which was not the final scene of the episode, but our last shot, was in the house, and everybody was standing up, propped up against something, so that they didn't just fall asleep.
Reedus: I stole my crossbow and took it back to New York. It's on my son's wall.
You guys have a lot of really intense scenes, and you don't get a lot of clothing changes, you're dirty and you have zombie guts all over you. What are some of the challenges, in actually doing this show?
Reedus: Well, I actually get very upset, if anybody on our cast has more dirt or blood on them than I do. Daryl lives in the woods. That's where he comes from. He's a hunter and tracker. He takes care of himself. When we got to the CDC last year, everyone went for showers and Daryl just went for whiskey. It's actually a part of our show. You're out there, it's 120 degrees, you're sweating, you're scratched up, and there are bugs. I don't think we could shoot this in Burbank. It actually works for us, as characters.
McBride: The bugs are horrible.
Yeun: Everything is good for us. I think the challenges are actually the things that help us. The challenges are doing the simpler scenes, where it's like, "Hey, stand out here and look miserable," and I'm like, "Okay, it's 120 degrees and I'm wearing the same clothes that I've worn for the last three weeks," so that's easy. But if it's like, "Look pleasant," that's pretty tough. You pick your poison, I suppose.
Steven, did you enjoy getting to have a romance this season?
Yeun: Yeah, absolutely. That was fun. What was really cool about it was that Lauren Cohan is awesome. Life and art go hand in hand. As she and I got to know each other, the characters also got to know each other, so it really just followed suit. That was really interesting. When you take a step back from it, you're like, "Oh, crap, we don't really know each other that well, so this scene fits perfect. Oh, now we know each other very well, so this scene fits perfect." It was really fun.
At the end of Episode 208, there's a really chilling moment between Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the two guys that come into the bar. How will that event change him?
Yeun: I think that's definitely a moment where it's an experience that Glenn goes through for himself, which is that some people that you think are right all the time, are not always right all the time, or people that you think are wrong, are sometimes right. It's just the ability for him to come to the realization that he needs to make his own decisions. Those are the only things that you can live by, in these situations.
Do you think that will change Glenn's perception of Rick?
Yeun: I think it will definitely have him rely less on other people, and more so on himself. That fits with how he would perceive Rick, as well.
How was the experience of doing 13 episodes this season, as opposed to doing six episodes last season?
Yeun: Awesome!
Reedus: It was great. We got to tell more stories. We got to get into characters more. Six was about setting up the world, especially the first episode. We got to learn more about our characters and each other. It was more of a commitment. I came in on the third episode of the first season, so I basically walked in, said hi and threw squirrels, right in the first hour. But, it was nice. We all got closer, and it was awesome.
Was Daryl always designed to become a regular role?
Reedus: No, it was not. It was actually Frank [Darabont] who wrote the part for the show. He created that part 'cause he's not in the comic book. I don't know. I think I was a little bit of an experiment, at first. I'm not sure. I'm glad it's going well and I'm still on there. It's a lot of fun. It's, by far, my most favorite job that I've ever been on.
Since there's so much danger, do you guys ever worry that the next script you get could be your last?
Reedus: Every time, every week.
McBride: Oh yeah, absolutely. There's going to be 16 episodes next season, instead of 13.
What can you say about where things will be going, during the second half of the season?
McBride: There are new characters introduced, and more people are going to die.
Do you each have a sense of how much the fans want each of your characters to stick around?
McBride: The fans are fantastic. They're great.
Reedus: I literally have got three boxes of presents. My son's room is nothing but Daryl Dixon paintings, dolls, lighters, tattoos and panties. It's pretty ridiculous. It's fun.
Do they overshadow The Boondock Saints fans?
Reedus: The Boondocks fans are pretty ferocious, as well. But, I get more Walking Dead stuff now. It's a bonus for me. The same group of people like both things. It's overwhelming, to be honest.
McBride: I love my Carol fans. They write the sweetest notes and tell me that Carol inspires them, of all things. Isn't that nice? That's nice. They say, "If she can survive a post-apocalypse, I can survive this or that." They relate to her. It's nice.
Are viewers going to see Merle again?
Reedus: Yeah, you'll see him. He'll come back, eventually, and he'll probably be super-pissed. That's going to be interesting. Is blood thicker than these new bonds he's made? There's going to be a lot of confrontation going on, for sure.
Melissa, is Carol going to find her inner-strength, after all she's been through?
McBride: Yeah. She's dealt with things by herself, for a long, long time, before this apocalypse ever happened. I think that's just how she deals. She has to come to terms with things inside of herself because she can't communicate with the people around her. They're just uncommunicative. So, she comes to terms with it in herself, and she just goes on. She deals with it the way she deals with it. She's going to find that she's taking care of herself more.
Are you surprised with how much strength she's had, over the course of the series?
McBride: I'm not surprised by it because I know that women in those circumstances, who have endured that kind of abuse, have great strengths that we just don't see. They have to, in order to survive it. Whether or not they have the courage to leave an abusive relationship is beside the point. There's something in there that keeps them upright. Now that Ed is gone, we're just going to see more of that inner strength manifest. That's what I hope for her. I don't know what the writers are going to do with her.


text:
Spike Vodka captures essence of prickly pear cactus
A swirl of prickly pear syrup in a frozen margarita adds a pop of color and a hint of sweetness.
But a bottle of clear liquid extracted from the same prickly pear cactus and distilled on the northwest side of town bears no resemblance to that pink syrup in frozen concoctions.
The label on this bottle reads, "vodka." Come again?
Yes, Spike Vodka is made from cactus.
"I am a vodka drinker," Spike founder Nick Spink says. "After researching the other vodkas that are on the market, there are very few that do everything from beginning to end.
"I really wanted (it) to be an artisan vodka. Everything handmade" throughout the process.
"How more Texan can you be than cactus?" he asked himself.
"We go out to the ranches to select the best nopales, the best paddles," says master distiller Rachel Price, adding that the best gift Spink ever gave her was a machete.
They harvest the cactus paddles on ranches in the San Antonio area and take them to the distillery, where they are cleaned and production begins. Entire paddles, complete with skin and thorns, are fermented in 55-gallon drums for roughly six weeks. During that time, the sediment settles to the bottom, leaving the liquid on top.
That fermented liquid is drained when it's at about 14 percent alcohol. Spink and Price run it through the still only once to retain the cactus characteristics and flavors. After distillation, the juice is about 90 percent alcohol. It's diluted to 40 percent, filtered and sampled before it's bottled.
The operation is small, with Spink and Price hand-bottling and labeling each bottle — the label design is from a piece of Spink's' artwork. They will have produced about 500 cases by year's end; next year, the goal is 3,000 cases. Spike is available here, in Austin, and soon, Dallas and Houston.
Of course, the big question is, "How does it taste?"
It's smooth and sweeter than one might expect. While heavy cactus aromas come through on the nose (some say it's a ringer for blanco tequila), it has notes of pepper, vanilla and almonds on the palate. Price describes its characters as earthy, raw and organic. Unique indeed, especially for a neutral spirit.
Similar to most vodkas, Spike Vodka is ideal for mixing in cocktails, but it also disappears quickly when poured for sipping. It could be substituted for vodka in most recipes, but its versatility shows when it's mixed in a margarita, and it's fantastic as the base spirit in limoncello made with limes instead of lemons.
Spink spent more than four years perfecting the recipe and fermentation process before launching Spike earlier this year. There was a lot of trial and error, not to mention a little confusion when he would explain what he was doing.
"There was a lot of, 'It's made out of what?'" Spink says.
Spike Vodka costs approximately $22 for a 750-milliliter bottle and can be found at several smaller liquor stores, including Doc's Liquor, LotSA Liquors, Mike's Liquors and Pig Liquors, as well as both Spec's Liquors locations and other stores. It's also on the shelf at Blue Box, Kona Grill at La Cantera and Sustenio at Éilan.
Correction: The founder of Spike Vodka is Nick Spink. His name is misspelled in a story on today's page H5 and on mySA.com.


text:
Copyright Sarong Swimsuit Coverup 2009-2019 - Dover, Delaware
Schamps Sarongs Swimsuits Coverups has a large collection of Sarongs, Beach Wraps, Bikini Wraps, Pareos, Kids Sarongs, Swimsuits, Bikinis, One Piece Swimwear and Beach Coverups. Sarongs come in sizes mini, short, knee length, and ankle length.
Sarong Swimsuit Coverup - Call Us: 888-670-1827 or Email Customer Service
Please visit our Sister Site Schamps Fantasy Wear for a great selection of Lingerie, Dresses, Swimsuits, Footwear, and much more.
Schamps Fantasy Wear is now listed on Sears Marketplace, please visit us at Sears for a great selection of Beach Cover Ups, Sarongs, and Pareos.


text:
In the meadows where we grow the rose petals
And we sip a glass of Merlot
While I blow the Portabello
Like Cruello with a Cigarillo
Hello, Listen Up
This is Asher from the Morrisville
A little North of Truck
What the fuck?
Oh you didn't know little homie flow?
He a pro, Use a little more
You's a little slow, how slow?
Little Kelso. Smoking elbows?
If so, let me know I'll just give you my cell phone
Hell froze, Elmo, I'm sticking like Velcro
So, you ain't got the pasta you don't get the Pesto
Presto, Go to infinity and beyond it
Rhyme shit spitting gets imprinted on your conscious
Ash, shit, this world's sitting in your palm
And it's important that you know this
So you never get it wrong
Says my Mom as she reads the Tarot cards and the stars
This called me to go and be a motherfucking boss, Ricky Ross
Look at Paul Roth, kid is all talk
He's a narc, he's a lost cause
Fuck em cut em off
But this dog's off his leash
I'm showin ya'll my teeth when I speak
Yeah, I mean I bring Prometheus heat
Lean in your seat
You'd think that they'd be leaping to see
A commercial MC keep an ear to the street
Because Jeez
We sick of watching all this shit go on
But this song ain't done yet, so son you start marching
A marksman, Part Marge, Part Bart Simpson
But the other parts Descartes, Bars is raw wisdom
A lost art. I talk part of a larger mission
But you'd rather slack off with Sharks than pay attention
So Bark Bark, another subpar spittin'
Yeah, my time is limited and I refuse to waste a minute
So finish, Bustin' Ass, Snuffaluf-gas
In the cab huffin' grass, Fuck it I puff puff pass
Enough of that, Oughta buy out the suckerin' succotash
Sup with Ash? Yo, what happened?
Yo, I heard that fucker cracked
Yo, I heard he was abducted they put something in his ass
Well, I heard he had a run-in with a bear and got attacked
Now, Where'd you come up with that
Run and tell your mother that this motherfucker's back
Paper or plastic? Nah. I bring my own bags
Now how you want to pay for that? Straight cash
Evil Laugh
Yeah, I've been playing phone tag for the last
6 months with my label, Tell them fools to call me back
I play charades sippin' chardonnay fifty times a day
Feeling great, can't wait to taste the marmalade
Fade away, Himalayan retreat to find me
Good grief. Loose leaf? I treat it like Bruce Lee
Who's he? Why y'all keep seeing truth in 2D?
My speech be like I mixed Rufies with Kool Keith


text:
Latest Innovations. Subspecialty Care. Strength in Patient Follow-Up
Cirrhosis is a scarring of liver tissue that can result from many types of liver conditions. The tissue become hardened and atrophied as a result of changes that take place after repeated inflammation and cell injury.
Causes/risk factors
The many causes of cirrhosis include:
- excessive exposure of the liver to alcohol, fat, certain medications, or metals (such as iron and copper that can accumulate as a result of genetic disease);
- viral infections of the liver;
- diseases in which the body's immune system attacks the liver;
- or genetic disorders.
Some cases of cirrhosis occur without any known causes.
Signs & symptoms
Symptoms are sometimes few or nonspecific. Symptoms most closely associated with cirrhosis, though, include:
- jaundice;
- fatigue;
- weakness;
- itching;
- and easy bruising.
Complications of cirrhosis include accumulation of fluid in different parts of the body, abdominal infections, internal bleeding, collection of toxic substances in the brain, failure of the kidney, lungs, or spleen. Cirrhosis is also a risk factor for cancer.
In addition to taking a medical history and performing a physical examination, physicians may request the following diagnostic procedures in order to diagnose cirrhosis:
- lab blood analysis;
- or needle aspiration of abdominal fluid.
Once cirrhosis has the scarring process cannot be reversed. Typically liver function will worsen, at least slowly. But treatment seeks to slow this process and prevent further damage to the liver. It also addresses the complications and risks of cirrhosis. It can include:
- change in diet;
- avoiding drugs and alcohol;
- treating viral infections;
- immune system drugs;
- drugs for fluid balance, infection, blood disorders;
- abdominal interventions;
- or liver transplantation.
Gastroenterologists at Aria Health ths work in cooperation with Jefferson's Liver Transplant Program to provide patients with advanced liver disease the opportunity for evaluation and possible transplantation.


text:
Ouch. That sounds bad. Read here from PFT.Sounds like he'll be out for a while too (which I take to mean well into the season).
This could be trouble. Not because Zombo is a critical piece to the defense, but because he's a decent guy to have available in case of injuries. Apparently Brad Jones is out as well with a knee sprain. Jones has not looked good to me at all so far – but again, depth issues.
I think the Pack ought to consider trying DJ Smith at OLB. As I wrote during the preseason game last Fri night, I think Smith has instincts that could help him become Bishop-like out there. I believe Smith is an ILB, so OLB would be a bit different – but he's young and instinctive and I'll bet he could do it (despite being a bit short for OLB). In fact, I remember going through a similar line of reasoning 3-4 years ago when Bishop was sitting on the bench and McCarthy and co were insisting on starting Poppinga at OLB – they should have tried Bishop there. Anyway, we may need to get creative here now – though I suppose it's also possible TT goes shopping at the grocery, finds a particularly strong bagger, turns him over to Capers/Greene and Capers/Greene turn him into a All-Pro.


text:
Since I'm not one to screw around with the financial health of my business, I called her back between patients.
Britney: "BigBuck Bank, this is Britney."
Dr. Grumpy: "Hi, this is Ibee Grumpy, returning your call."
Britney: "Oh! Thank you for calling me back so quickly. I was reviewing your account, and found you qualify for a BigBuck Bank corporate Visa card!"
Dr. Grumpy: "I already have a BigBuck Bank corporate Visa card."
(longer pause)
Britney: 'You're right! Thank you for calling me back, and have a nice day!"


text:
2037 2038 Fiscal Year Planner
The 2037-2038 fiscal year planner shows April 2037 to March 2038 on an A4 landscape page with days running
horizontally. You are very welcome to download it free. The 2037-38 fiscal year planner is in Word format so it's
easy to change it to your favourite colours and to print it in A3, A4 or A5 size.
The Fiscal Year Planner for accountants, tax and financial officers, those in the public sector,
etc shows 37-38 Public Holidays in England and Wales. At a glance 37/38 fiscal calendar and diary.
calendar year fiscal year academic year
A diary that maps out the year ahead with scheduled commitments, holidays, events and meetings
with suppliers and customers is a useful personal time organiser and 2037/2038 Fiscal Calendar.
A 2037 2038 wall chart is one of those staples of office life - office essentials - that every professional office worker
and manager needs. This year planner complements office stationery products as it can be downloaded, personalised,
enlarged or shrunk, colour-changed and printed. For accountants, actuaries, financial officers, local government officers,
finance managers, finance departments, finance managers, public sector and all those whose year runs from April 6 to April 5.
Useful notebook and presentation of the timetable, showing key dates in the tax year
or perhaps staff absence or availability. Fiscal calendar 2037 2038. Fiscal Year Planner 2037 2038.


text:
- Retail Price$29.95
- Discount70%
- Our Price$9.95
Time left to redeem
22438 Gasms Redeemed
Redemption Instructions
- 1. Click APPLY OFFER Button
- 2. Click on Join Now
- 3. Choose desired offer
- 4. Follow instructions and enjoy!
FantasyMassage: 30Day Pass Just $9.95!
70% Discount to the Entire FantasyMassage network!
Deal Details
Massage parlors and boutique massage studios where strangers can go to release all of their tension before pumping out a load of their own body lotion all over a pretty masseuse have been in business for centuries. FantasyMassage is the only site to fully capture this experience with a Network of gorgeous and varied sites dedicated to this hugely popular fantasy. Get all the great benefits for a relaxing massage, enjoy a huge archive of more than 1,000 massage porn scenes and hundreds of gorgeous XXX therapists with the complete privacy of home viewing. Every rub down comes with a full set of photos, 1080p HD videos, mobile viewing options from your tablet or smartphone and more. This is better than any gym pass, vacation or real life massage if what you really want is the kind of massage everyone has always fantasized about. See for yourself and step inside to be part of one of the best VIP porn communities available anywhere online!
- A Network of 5 sites dedicated to massage Fantasy
- 1080P HD Videos With Photos
- Exclusive Massage Sex Scenes
- Full Length Downloads
- Active Engaged VIP Community
Fine Print
- Cannot be combined with any other offer
- No cash back/cash value
- Must adhere to Vendors terms and conditions
- Must be +18 years of age
Exclusive: AdultTime 30Day Pass Just $9.95!
- Retail Price$29.95
- Our Price$9.95
MilkingTable: 30Day Pass Just 14.95/MO for Life!
- Retail Price$29.95
- Our Price$14.95
MassageCreep: 40% Lifetime Discount!
- Retail Price$29.95
- Our Price$17.95
AllGirlMassage: 30Day Pass Just 9.95!
- Retail Price$29.95
- Our Price$14.95
FuckedHard18: 12.95/Mo for Life!
- Retail Price$29.95
- Our Price$12.95
MeanMassage: 30Day pass Just 14.90
- Retail Price$29.95
- Our Price$14.90
NFBusty: 50% Lifetime Discount!
- Retail Price$29.95
- Our Price$14.95
Exclusive: Gasm - Just $9.95 for Life!
- Retail Price$19.95
- Our Price$9.95
Todays Featured Offer!


text:
David Guetta (Feat. Estelle) - One Love
Video for David Guetta's "One Love," the latest single off his album of the same name. Estelle rides shotgun with the French DJ
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
Chain Reaction: Tony Roma's
Reviews of burgers at chain restaurants.
Of course we love our mom & pops, and our favorite burger joints around the country are pretty much all independently owned, but there are certain times in life—overnight layovers, hungover Sunday mornings, all-day shopping trips at the outlets—that the only options around are the chains. Chain Reaction is here to help you decide when to go for the burger, and when you're better off sticking with the chicken fingers.
Tony Roma's
4110 Mission Blvd., San Diego CA 92109 (map)
200 locations in 33 countries, full list at tonyromas.com
The Schtick: A semi-casual chain that's "famous for ribs" but also serves several different burgers
The Burger: A decent burger for desperate times, but not especially worth going out of your way for
Want Fries With That? Yep! Seasoned fries come with the burger and they're tasty
Setting: Your typical stuck-in-the-'90s chain restaurant atmosphere
Price: Steakhouse Burger, $10; Bison Burger, $10
Big, multi-national chains like Tony Roma's are probably familiar to many AHT'ers, especially since there are over 200 locations in 33 countries from Costa Rica to China, but Tony and I have a shorter history, limited to one childhood memory: running full-tilt towards the (now closed) Fisherman's Wharf location, overjoyed at the prospect of eating corn on the cob for dinner for the second night in a row. These were simpler times, before I discovered more complicated pleasures like avant-garde desserts or, you know, red pepper.
A good two decades after my last visit, I returned with a different mission: to suss out the burgers. Tony Roma's has three different base patties—sirloin, "all-beef", and bison—loaded up with everything from crispy onions to a triple-hit of cheese. I stuck with the two upmarket options: a lean bison burger with the basic veggies and a steakhouse burger, with cabernet demi-glace, melted Havarti, and bacon flecked with rosemary. Both burgers were $10, a mere $1 upgrade from the basic beef variety, making it an easy decision.
When I ordered my burger medium-rare and our server countered with, "I can do medium," I was a bit put off. A steakhouse, of all places, shouldn't be a place where you have to negotiate temperatures, but fine. I'll eat a medium burger if there's no other option.
This one was decent—reasonably flavorful and moist, with a straightforward, if slightly steak-like flavor, but it would have been much tastier had it been a little redder in the center. Certain toppings, like the rosemary bacon and the Havarti cheese, were perfectly executed and rounded out the moisture the patty was lacking, but the promised cabernet demi-glace was undetectable. Overall, it was a totally acceptable burger, and one I'd happily eat in a pinch, but it's not one that's worth going out of your way for.
Depending on your personal tastes, you might love Tony's bison burger. The presentation skips the cheese (likely to keep it leaner, and lower in fat), but there's plenty of flavor coming from the patty, which is unmistakably gamey. Though leaner than the sirloin patty, the flavor of the buffalo was about twice as intense.
And what's that? A warm, red center? Well, turns out it is possible to get your patty less than medium at Tony Roma's, if you're lucky. The rightful owner of this patty was my +1, who, knowing the policy, jokingly ordered his burger rare, which could have something to do with its hue, or could just be inconsistency in the kitchen. Either way, I think Tony Roma should take some advice from another Tony (Bourdain) and allow people to do their "patriotic duty"—order their burger medium-rare.
Fries and a pickle spear come standard, and you want them both. Though a bit pale, the fries are plenty crisp, and extra-tasty thanks to flecks of seasoned salt.
Tony Roma's isn't my first choice for a burger, but in those situations where the only option is a chain, it'll do...and if you're worried it won't be enough to emotionally satisfy you, well, there's always the onion loaf.
Love hamburgers? Then you'll Like AHT on Facebook! And go follow us on Twitter while you're at it!
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


text:
I once spoke with a gunsmith about the usual issues that people had brought to him concerning their malfunctioning weapons. The owners often went out for a day of shooting and then suddenly, the rifle or pistol jammed on him or her. These particular pistols and rifles were hardly ever used tools, or the owners stored them in some closet, basement or garage structure.
The owners had hoped that the weapons would work, but often the guns seemed to not function at the correct times. The gunsmith told me plainly that the main problem was that the owners had just forgot to clean their rarely used weapons. The gunsmith had to charge them a steep fee for working on the guns – but a good cleaning, after such a long time of non-use, might have avoided those gunsmith visits.
After a fun day of shooting with friends, or plinking at old cans, bottles, metal boxes and broken televisions in the desert, I used to dread the cleaning ritual. I didn't like the process of having to check my guns, once again, for any live rounds in the chambers, and then the full disassembly process of the weapons. With my rifles, sometimes a little spring piece would jut out of nowhere and fall somewhere on the floor. Looking for that annoying, tiny piece on the floor somewhere – bothered me greatly.
And then it was the straight on cleaning, with the barrel cleaning taking up most of my time. The worst part was the reassembly because I always had trouble fitting the bolt back into the action of the rifle chamber. In the past, I 've had to call friends over my place, so they could help me out with such mundane tasks.
Recently however, I have overcome the dread of cleaning my weapons. Part of this transformation was due to recognizing the natural, human laziness in doing any cleaning at all. For those of us that enjoy cooking, the washing up and drying of cookware, plates, cups and utensils is not that much fun either. But this is a part of living, and cleaning is one of the actions of light that brings us more peace and happiness.
We clean our anuses and ass cheeks after excreting feces, so we material beings also need to clean our tools for whatever purposes after having used them. We can also embrace cleaning as a virtuous art in itself.
Yes, it takes up time and the wiping actions are quite monotonous, but it is simply another stage in our lives. We can do our cleaning well and thereby, keep using our tools, shelters and bodies in good health. Cleaning is an honorable act of accomplishment. It signifies our basic love for ourselves, where we currently reside, and the instruments in our lives that are important to us.
Before I buy a weapon, I always ask the seller to show me how to clean the thing. I have found that weapons cleaning has helped me learn more about that particular weapon. While I clean the different parts, I can see how the firing pin hits the brass or steel cartridge, how the guide rod helps engage the bolt and the round, how the hammer cock moves the trigger, how the slide assembly moves the bolt, or how the trigger aligns with the action chamber.
This is the most important lesson with cleaning the weapon. The more we clean our weapons, the more accustomed we become to disassembly, viewing the different mechanisms in firing, and reassembly. We transform ourselves into the experts of our very own tools for the martial arts. If we were to engage with live firing during a red alert scenario, then we would feel a lot more comfortable in using our chosen guns. I could not imagine the horrible feeling of dread, while using an unknown weapon during hot combat. Cleaning the weapon will kill that dread.
Before cleaning our weapons, we could set up a special section for the cleaning. Gunpowder, lead and grease will spill and fall out, so we need some backup surfaces for the work. I normally lay out some old fabrics on the table. I also put on elastic hand gloves, to avoid the lead residue getting all over my hands.
I make sure the weapon's safety is on. I lay the weapon horizontal on the fabrics, with the barrel muzzle facing out, towards a wall facing the outside, (not someone else's apartment or house), and I grab the weapon's manual user's guide. I look up disassembly.
I next move the slide back and check the chamber to see if there is possibly a live round inside. In the past, I have discovered live rounds in the chamber before cleaning, so this is an important and necessary step. After double-checking the safety in the on position and making sure the chamber is free of rounds, I disassemble the weapon. I have found that disassembly is a lot quicker than the reassembly.
Once the weapon is completely disassembled, I lay the different parts out on the fabrics, and then I grab the necessary cleaning tools from the gun cleaning kit. The first thing to clean, and the hardest, is the barrel bore since it has the lead and gunpowder residue inside of it. For the barrels, I now use bore snakes, which are long fabrics that you put in the bore of the rifle, while sprinkling a little gun cleaning oil on the fabric. You pull the bore snake line from the barrel muzzle end, (where the bullet exits), for cleaning. I have had to do this method a couple of times for a good clean. I next inspect the barrel from the muzzle end, in the light, to see if the bore is clear of dirty obstructions. For handguns, I use a thin rod with a brush on the end. I put a little oil on the brush and move it back and forth inside the bore.
Around the barrel and receiver chamber, I use a gun cleaning toothbrush with a little gun oil. I try to get rid of the black soot crap. Following this, I use small white pads with a little oil around the area. I also like to use Q-Tips in the hard to reach spots. At the end, I like to pass a clean white pad, and later, clean Q-Tips around the whole barrel and receiver part. When I feel the whole barrel complex is free from most of the soot, I then move to the bolt.
I clean the bolt with the gun cleaning toothbrush and a little oil. Afterwards, I rub the oiled white pads and Q-Tips on it, and especially around the firing pin area to get rid of the real dirty areas. For the revolvers, I clean the cylinder chambers with a round wire brush and gun oil. I gently wipe around the revolver's ejecting rod.
I also lightly clean the breech, (the back of the gun), hammer-trigger assemblies, slides, and guide rod-coils with a bit of oil, some white pads, and Q-Tip rubbing. The last part I clean is the whole rifle or handgun, including the stock, the forestock, the magazine area, and the trigger guard with a little oil and some white pads. Finally, I wipe down the different parts with a silicone cloth that gives the weapon a nice, overall clean look.
Now comes the hard part – reassembly. For handguns, this part is not that hard, but for rifles, I usually have my issues inserting the bolt properly into the action chamber area. Although, the reassembly is sometimes frustrating, the practice of reassembly makes the gun owner a better handler of the tool. I have gotten faster in my reassembly skills over the years.
Once the rifle and handgun is fully assembled, check to make sure the slide or pump, and the bolt move easily in the action-chamber. I always do a final wipe with the silicon cloth around the whole weapon. I check to make sure that the safety is still on, thereupon, I lock the weapon and store it in a safe place.
During this whole cleaning ritual, I always reexamine the cleaned parts. Once I view the completely cleaned weapon, which is ready for storage, a great feeling washes over me. I have taken care of my precious tool. This is not an act of love for my guns, but an act of love for being a good artist. A good artist cherishes his or her instruments for both creation and destruction. This is part of the magic of life – expertise in handling tools.


text:
- Font:
- +
- -
Criminals tampered with PIN pads at 63 Barnes & Noble stores across the United States, stealing the credit- and debit-card information of countless customers, the bookstore chain said in a statement yesterday (Oct. 23).
The data breach was discovered in mid-September, but kept the matter quiet at the request of the Department of Justice, according to an unnamed company official who spoke to the New York Times. The Times, which apparently learned of the breach independently, broke the story last night on its website.
"We have acted at the direction of the U.S. government and they have specifically told us not to disclose it, and there we have complied," the Barnes & Noble official told the Times.
"Barnes & Noble disconnected all PIN pads from its stores nationwide by close of business September 14, and customers can securely shop with credit cards through the company's cash registers," read a statement posted on the Barnes & Noble corporate website today.
The company said that card transactions on the Barnes & Noble website and those involving its Nook e-reader were not affected.
[ How to Protect Your Debit Card From Skimming Scams ]
PIN pads are small devices located at checkout counters at thousands of retail outlets in North America. They allow the customer to swipe a card and, in the case of a debit transaction, type in a personal identification number, or PIN. They sometimes also let a credit-card customer "sign" a touchscreen with a plastic pen.
Barnes & Noble said only one PIN pad was compromised in each of 63 affected retail outlets in nine U.S. states, which included California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. A complete list of the affected stores is on the company website.
"The criminals planted bugs in the tampered PIN pad devices, allowing for the capture of credit card and PIN numbers," the company statement said. "We discovered this tampering during maintenance and inspection of the devices, and we promptly discontinued the use of all PIN pads in our nearly 700 retail stores nationwide."
The company did not provide further details of how the PIN pads were tampered with, but such a scheme would normally require physical access to the devices in order to install additional hardware, or even swap out a clean PIN pad with a tampered one.
Tampered PIN pads record card data, customer names and PINs for the benefit of criminal gangs, which can then resell the information wholesale in underground online markets. Sometimes the information is transmitted to remote computers controlled by criminals; in other instances, the criminals must return to the compromised PIN pads to retrieve the information.
A company official told the New York Times that some compromised card had been used to make unauthorized purchases.
Last year, the Michaels art-supply chain revealed that nearly 90 PIN pads had been tampered with at dozens of retail outlets in 20 states. Michaels has not disclosed whether the persons behind the tampering have been apprehended.
Barnes & Noble urged customers to change the PIN numbers on debit cards, to review their account statements and to notify their card issuers if anything seems amiss. It reminded customers that all U.S. residents are entitled to three free credit reports per year.
Credit-card holders aren't responsible for unauthorized transactions as long as they notify the card issuer within 60 days of learning of transactions. Debit-card holders have less protection; they must notify their banks within 48 hours.
- 5 Steps to Better Credit-Card Security
- The Bank Cyberattacks: Is Your Money Safe?
- 10 Best Prepaid Credit Cards
© 2012 TechNewsDaily


text:
Now that we're well into the browns and burnt umbers of Fall, full of Pumpkin Spice lattes and head colds, let's take a look at what's new and exciting on our TV's! 'Cause it ain't been the performance of the Jets thus far.
This is a story about a girl trapped in a magical realm where everything is topsy-turvy and all rules of logic fly out the window. Av's atop the division?! Patrick Roy is the Cheshire Cat, undoubtedly. Scheifele and Setoguchi getting more ice-time than Frolik who has outscored them both? Claude Noel, you're the wacky, inscrutable Mad Hatter!
Wow, this show got canceled after only 2 episodes! I have no idea what it was about. Here's a lucky seven: Wheeler, Scheifele, Setoguchi, Slater, Wright, Halischuk, Tangradi. Lucky to be called "NHL-caliber offense". Now I know you're only counting on 3 of those guys to score (Wheeler is coming along with 4 points, Setoguchi's 3 were in a single game, I dunno what Scheifele's deal is) but they're also a collective minus 6 right now. Maybe it would be easier to ask them to put the puck into their own net and just save everybody the hassle. We can't, unfortunately, cancel this show. It's on all season whether we like it or not.
Precocious kids cook stuff! Jacob Trouba makes a soufflé that doesn't rise to the occasion. Mark Scheifele promises Beef Wellington, delivers curly fries from Arby's that he picked up on the way to the rink. Gordon Ramsay berates them and sends them off crying to their parents. (**Update – Ramsay went and drove Trouba right into the boards on Friday. Jesus, that guy does not mess around in the kitchen. Get better, Jacob!)
James Spader stars as James Spader solving crimes or critiquing fashion or possibly something really racist – one of the three. The first episode pits him against the diabolical genius of the NHL Disciplinary Committee as he tries to figure out the criteria for suspensions. Maxime LaPierre guest stars as an assassin called "The Greasy Weasel".
A reality series about Jets fans. And killing the President. (Jets President, Jim Ludlow?! What did he ever do to you, Dermott Mulroney? I have it on good authority that Ludlow enjoyed The Practice. Not Jets practices, those are dismal, but the old David. E. Kelly lawyer show.)
Look, I'm not going to make some joke about Parkinson's, alright? What kind of a-hole do you think I am? I will say this though: this show is unfunny. You really want to like it because who could you possibly want to root for more than Mike Fox? He's the second-most inspirational Fox there is, right behind Terry and just ahead of The Fantastic Mister! So, you watch dutifully and you try to make yourself laugh but a dry wheeze comes out instead. If you can't imagine the sensation, listen to the Jets broadcast team trying to find bright lights in the fog of the team's typical nightly performance – you can hear what they feel. Before the big comeback in the third against the Blues on Friday, they digressed for a couple minutes to talk about the MLB playoffs. Sure, boys, why not?
Any defense pairing other than Byfuglien and Enstrom. It's your choice as to whom to name "Sleepy" and whom to name "Hollow" on any given tandem. I'm not that mean. But you are. And you're right to be. If I may comment about the actual show "Sleepy Hollow": it's the most ludicrous premise ever put on television. I haven't missed an episode. It's kinda rad.
A new high-concept genre series from the only man apparently allowed to make science fiction anymore, JJ Abrams. This hasn't aired yet, but it's about a robot cop who looks human but is a robot…cop. Evander Kane plays the brilliant machine fighting alongside puny mortals. He can't do it alone, jerks!! I just feel bad for him so far this season. Who took Wheeler's hands and replaced them with novelty plastic Hulk fists? The rest of the scorers will come around, right? Can't tell you – hasn't aired yet. JJ Abrams is very top secret-hush-hush about the scripts. I do have it on good authority though that Andrew Ladd will be playing Kane's cybernetic sidekick, "Andrew-Lad"! Exciting!
Well, there you have it folks – tune in as you see fit. I know we complain that there's nothing good to watch but it all can't be HBO, okay? At best maybe some of the roles will be recast, like they did back on Roseanne with Becky or Darrin on Bewitched! Wouldn't you like to see Evegeni Malkin as Devin Setoguchi? That would be amazing. That would be like seeing Brad Pitt in dinner theatre. Never gonna happen but it's a fun thought. Hell, at this point, I'd take Simone Gagner as Setoguchi. I think he's doing Death of A Salesmen in Lethbridge. Call him. And don't forget to PVR Sleepy Hollow.